“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

your existence, you wicked

 

The mood was strange.

 

two were seriously fighting, but they couldn’t take their eyes off one

 

each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something

 

chest to chest

 

be my appearance you’re at least

 

came out like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a hell of a lot more attractive men much

 

doing here, then?

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

man came closer, as if there

 

if you don’t participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling

 

was twice her size,

 

wonder where I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I took

 

while now, and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining

 

yet macabre. Sad and hopeless and wretched all

 

eyes turned

 

was only a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from the

 

somehow, that woman smiled

 

broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to see previously finally

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I

 

plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows in this empty and desolate

 

***

 

shining right into my eyes had me twitching, trying to blink

 

heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped

 

Who got me here? What happened at the

 

I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s arm underneath

 

I wanted to cry.

 

next to me, looking like he hadn’t

 

just looked at him, taking him in, my eyes leaving no part of his face untouched. He did the

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

my fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but

 

a whisper

 

really thinking of anything. It felt like it didn’t really matter, none of

 

life, all of it flashed before my eyes,

 

my own body thinking about

 

I answered him with was low and hoarse as well, a whisper I breathed out. “Because

 

“What…?”

 

for a long time. I’ve never really been me. All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke,

 

that had revealed itself to me time

 

my adoptive parents had been with me once they realized I wasn’t what they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always composed and worthy of the family name

 

always been like

 

“Always.”

 

his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it

 

where I’m hated without doing anything.

 

first until I pressed hard

 

on gazing at me with

 

he could embrace me fully,

 

my own arm around his wide torso and burying my head in the juncture where his

 

didn’t understand why my

 

a dream, but I didn’t remember it

 

not

 

arrogant

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